Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Education

Agency for Girls Colleges

Deanship Graduate Studies

College of Education for Home

Economics And Art Education

In Jeddah

ComparativeStudy for Teaching Collars Patterns

Using Computer or by Traditional Method (Demonstration)

A Research Presented to Garments & Textiles Division

As part of Master Degree Requirements

In Garments & Textiles

Prepared by:

Munira Hussein Jan

Supervised by

Somaya Moustafa Alsayed

Associate Proffessor , Clothing & Textiles Department

1427– 1428 H

Summary

It is obvious that developing the traditional educational system in the Arab World is more imperative than ever before as the existing system lacks elements of positive interaction between instructors and students due to congestion in classrooms. Furthermore and due to such congestion, instructors are unable to identify personal capabilities as students in such system receive the same attention, the same style and method of teaching and similar pace. Therefore, many educational institutions resorted to computer technology as a modern mean that tackles points of weakness hence such technology is of a great interest to students in general.

However, it is sad that some believe that the introduction of computer technology to schools, institutes and universities shall replace the role of the instructor. In fact this is a worn assumption as the computer is merely an aid apparatus that helps educators to implement their duties, preparesubjects thus present the same to students using special programs for such purpose. These programs, however, are made to assist in self-education, boost organizational aspects and encourage students to learn and subsequently the role of instructors is limited to directions and orientation.

The researcher realized, in her field of specialization, that due to increasing numbers of students vs. shortage in educators in the Garments and Textiles Division; therefore, it would be better to introduce modern techniques, namely, self-education through utilization of computer technology as such is widely used lately.

Based on educational and physiological researches implemented it is clear that self-education can be useful taking into consideration that the student is the vocal point of the educational process. Therefore, this research tackles the need for introducing computer technology that distinguish personal and individual capabilities hence such shall be a mean to subdue some educational obstacles. However, this research questions the following elements:

How efficient is the computer technology in learning subjects proposed in this research?

Are there statistics that depicts the level of advancement between those subjected to modern technology and those follow traditional teaching methods, as to:

a) attainment of knowledge, b) skilled performance, c) learning time.

Objective

The objective of this research was to identify the level of computer efficiency in preparing flat programsfor students at Fourth Group - Garments and Textiles Division, as to:

1) attainment of knowledge, 2) skilled performance, 3) learning time.

In order to achieve the objective of this research, the research have had prepared the following:

A computerized educational program using Visual Basic in creating an educational program, Photoshop software for background designing in addition to transforming still pictures into JPEG mode, Flash for pictures movement, Windows Movie Maker for merging video clips with still pictures, EO Video to transfer video clips into AVI mode. Phonetic elements were recorded by utilizing Strom Digital Recorder and Digital Hnadycam DCR-HC85E for video shooting. The researcher also have had compiled a directory that illustrates operational steps, and finally an evaluation tools that consists of the following:

  • Testing of attainment of knowledge (prior and after) to measure data, knowledge and rectifying keys.
  • Testing of skilled performance (prior and after) to measure skills implied in a subject.
  • An assessment scale to identify for drawing capabilities through utilization of Shawl Collar and Tailored Collar .

Followingthe assurance of credibility and dependability of such tools, the structural and final assessment was achieved in order to measure efficiency on the research sample which consisted of the Fourth Group -Garments and Textiles Division that subjected to computer assistance in education vs. the other group subjected to traditional techniques in teaching.

The research has adopted the descriptive and semi-pilot mechanism, hence the sample selected consisted of 60 female students who were grouped as follows:

  • Trail Group30 students
  • Controlling Group30 students

Subsequently, T-Testing is used for treatment of results pertaining to both Knowledge Attainment and Skilled Performance exams in order to identify the resulting average for both groups. Amazingly, the result was excellent for the Trail Group.

The results

There were statistical differences between the average at level 1 in testing of both Knowledge and Skills Attainment prior and after the program so the first assumption prevailed.

There were statistical differences between the average of both Trail Group and Controlling Group's Testing at level 1 in testingDimensional Knowledge Attainment and this indicates that the Trail Group have excelled due to subjection to the computerized program better than the Controlling Group subjected to traditional teaching method.

There were statistical differences between the average of both Trail Group and Controlling Group at level 1 inDimensional testing for Skills Performancein Shawl Collar and Tailored Collar and this indicates that the efficiency of the computerized program in assisting students to learn better in this field.

There were statistical differences between the meantime of learning for both Trail Group and Controlling Group so the Trail Group excelled notably.

However, the research is divided into four (4) sections, as follows:

Section 1 that includes Introduction, problems and obstacles, limitations, importance, objective and methodology utilized in the research.

Section 2, that includes two parts:

Part 1: Includes previous studies.

Part 2: Includes theoretical framework, hence depicts the following:

  • Concepts relating to (………….. formats).
  • Concepts pertaining to learning methods utilized in the research.

Section 3, that includes two parts:

Part 1: Illustrates procedural steps for educational program preparation.

Part 2: Reflects the research procedures hence includes assessment tools and assurance of the same through application of such tools on the pilot sample as well as procedures of the basic trail of the research.

Section 4,Includes research results, analysis, interpretation, and:

  • Recommendations
  • References – Arab/foreign sources
  • Appendixes
  • Abstract, in Arabic Language
  • Abstract, in English Language

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